Disease & Drug Consult: Respiratory DisordersDisease & Drug Consult is a unique new series of handbooks that combine disease monographs plus monographs on drugs used to treat diseases. Each Disease & Drug Consult book focuses on a specific body system and has two sections. Part 1 presents diseases alphabetically, with a description, causes & incidence, signs & symptoms, complications, diagnosis, treatment including drugs used to treat the disease and the reason for using each drug, and special considerations. Part 2, also organized alphabetically, offers complete drug monographs for each drug mentioned in the disease section. In the Respiratory Disorders volume, for example, the nurse can read a full description of asthma, then turn to the drug monographs for a full discussion of each of the drugs used to treat that disease. |
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12 hours 24 hours acute Adults and children ADVERSE-REACTIONS CNS Advise patient airway Alert Aminoglycosides amoxicillin anticoagulant arterial asthma AVAILABLE FORMS bronchodilator bronchospasm cardiac CAUSES AND INCIDENCE cautiously in patients cephalosporins chest Children ages chronic Contraindicated in patients cor pulmonale corticosteroids cough creatinine creatinine clearance decrease diarrhea digoxin disease dosage dyspnea edema EFFECTS ON LAB fluid Give drug Half-life hepatic hypersensitive to drug hypertension hypokalemia hypotension hypoxemia I.V. infusion increase risk infection inflammation influenza inhalation Instruct patient INTERACTIONS Drug-drug LAB TEST RESULTS leukopenia lung mg daily mg/kg mg/ml ml/minute Monitor patient closely nausea notify prescriber NURSING CONSIDERATIONS Onset Peak Duration oral oxygen pain PATIENT TEACHING patient to avoid patients hypersensitive penicillin Pharmacologic class phenytoin platelet pleural pneumonia Pregnancy risk category prevent Probenecid pulmonary pulmonary edema pulmonary embolism Route Onset Peak signs and symptoms skin sodium syndrome tablets Tell patient theophylline therapy thrombocytopenia toxicity treatment vial vomiting